EduSync’s TeacherCal Helps You Plan and Organize Lessons
EduSync is a new company developing products to help teachers organize daily lesson plans and products to help students keep track of those plans. TeacherCal is the the first product from EduSync. TeacherCal provides you with a calendar on which they can organize a schedule of lesson plans, quizzes, assignments, and projects. TeacherCal can be […]
A Crash Course in Economics
Economics is one of my favorite subjects to teach to high school students so I was excited when I saw that Crash Course is publishing a new series of videos about economics. The new course is not hosted by Hank or John Green. The new course is hosting by Adriene Hill from Marketplace and high […]
Make Lesson Plans and Storyboards Pop With These New Guides
Disclosure: Storyboard That is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com For the last couple of years Storyboard That has offered great guides to using storyboards in the classroom. The latest update to their Teacher Guides section includes new literature guides as well as guides for use in social studies and Spanish. A visit to the Teacher Guides section of Storyboard […]
Vibby – Break YouTube Videos Into Segments With Commentary
Vibby is a new service for breaking YouTube videos into segments and inserting comments into those segments. To segment a YouTube video on Vibby simply grab the URL for the video and paste into the Vibby editor. Once inserted into Vibby you can highlight a segment on the video timeline. Vibby then play only the […]
An Easy Way to Create Your Own iPad & Android Games
Tiny Tap is one of the free iPad and Android apps that continues to stay in my Best of the Web presentations. Whenever I show it off there is always a great response to it. Tiny Tap allows you to create simple games based on pictures that you take. The purpose of the games you […]
Best of the Web – Summer 2015 Update
On Wednesday morning in Mooresville, North Carolina I presented an updated version of my popular best of the web slides. Those slides are embedded below. I try to provide something for everyone in the slides.
This Playlist Will Help You Learn How to Use Remind to Send Messages to Students
Earlier today one of my former colleagues sent me a Facebook message with questions about using Remind this fall. To help her get started I created the following playlist of tutorial videos. Nine of the videos in the playlist were produced by Remind the others were created by me. The full playlist is embedded below. […]
Three Webinar Recordings – Blogger, Google Drive, and YouTube
Last week I presented three webinars on behalf of Simple K12. If you couldn’t attend the live sessions, you can now access the recordings through Simple K12. Update 8/1/2015: Unbeknownst to me, Simple K12 has started to charge for these recordings. Click the links below to access the webinar recordings and hand-outs. Blogging With Blogger. […]
5 Important Things I’ve Learned About Classroom Blogging
1. Just ship it. Don’t spend too much time worrying about how the blog looks from a design standpoint because you can always tweak it later. When you’re getting started, any of the standard templates from Blogger, WordPress.com, KidBlog, Edublogs, or Weebly will do. The important thing is to get the blog started. As one […]
Why You Might Want to Share a Tech Glossary at Your Next PD Day
A few years ago when I published my guide to using Blogger in the classroom I included a glossary of terms in it. That same glossary was also published as a stand-alone document that I often distribute when I lead webinars and workshops about blogging. I created that glossary and others like it because I […]
